Notable changes:
`_i386`, `_i486`, and `_i686` are renamed to `i386`, `i486`,
and `i686` respectively. `std.zig.fmtId` is enhanced to support
formatting `i386` as `@"i386"`.
Some CPU features which are actually CPU models have been
properly flattened, such as `apple_a12`, `apple_a13`, `apple_a7`,
`cortex_a78c`, `exynos_m4`, `neoverse_e1`, `neoverse_n1`,
`neoverse_n2`, `neoverse_v1`.
Some CPU features have been added and some have been removed, following
LLVM's lead.
CSky CPU features support is added.
LLVM pointers are transitioning to no longer have types, however, inline
assembly inputs and outputs which accept pointers need to know the
element type. So, inline assembly must be upgraded to add
elementtype(<ty>) annotations.
LLVM 14 deprecated a bunch of C API functions in preparation for opaque
pointer changes. However, they did not actually implement opaque pointer
semantics, so the deprecations are largely masturbatory. I have nothing
against masturbation, I am just busy trying to get the self hosted
compiler done for 0.10.0, so we will come back to this later.
This is a prelude to a more elaborate work which will implement
`-dead_strip` flag - garbage collection of unreachable atoms. Here,
when sorting sections, we also check that the section is actually
populated with some atoms, and if not, we exclude it from the final
linked image. This can happen when we do not import any symbols
from dynamic libraries in which case we will not be populating
the stubs sections or the GOT table, implying we can skip allocating
those sections. Furthermore, we also make a check that a segment
is actually occupied too, with the exception of `__TEXT` segment
which is non-optional given that it wraps the header and load commands
and thus is required by the `dyld` to perform dynamic linking, and
`__PAGEZERO` which is generally non-optional when the linked image
is an executable. For any other segment, if its section count is
zero, we mark it as dead and skip allocating it and generating
a load command for it.
This commit also includes some minor improvements to the linker such
as refactoring of the segment allocating codepaths, skipping
`__PAGEZERO` generation for dylibs, and skipping generation of zero-sized
atoms for special symbols such as `__mh_execute_header` and `___dso_handle`.
These special symbols are only allocated local and global symbol pair
and their VM addresses is set to the start of the `__TEXT` segment,
but no `Atom` is created, as it's not necessary given that they never
carry any machine code.
Finally, we now always force-link against `libSystem` which turns out
to be required for `dyld` to properly handle `LC_MAIN` load command
on older macOS versions such as 10.15.7.
Gimli was a game changer. A permutation that is large enough to be
used in sponge-like constructions, yet small enough to be compact
to implement and fast on a wide range of platforms.
And Gimli being part of the Zig standard library was awesome.
But since then, Gimli entered the NIST Lightweight Cryptography
Competition, competing againt other candidates sharing a similar set
of properties.
Unfortunately, Gimli didn't pass the 3rd round.
There are no practical attacks against Gimli when used correctly, but
NIST's decision means that Gimli is unlikely to ever get any traction.
So, maybe the time has come to move Gimli from the standard library
to another repository.
We shouldn't do it without providing an alternative, though.
And the best candidate for this is probably Xoodoo.
Xoodoo is the core function of Xoodyak, one of the finalists of the
NIST LWC competition, and the most direct competitor to Gimli. It is
also a 384-bit permutation, so it can easily be used everywhere Gimli
was used with no parameter changes.
It is the building block of Xoodyak (for actual encryption and hashing)
as well as Charm, that some Zig applications are already using.
Like Gimli that it was heavily inspired from, it is compact and
suitable for constrained environments.
This change adds the Xoodoo permutation to std.crypto.core.
The set of public functions includes everything required to later
implement existing Xoodoo-based constructions.
In order to prepare for the Gimli deprecation, the default
CSPRNG was changed to a Xoodoo-based that works exactly the same way.
A hash function cascade was a common way to avoid length-extension
attacks with traditional hash functions such as the SHA-2 family.
Add `std.crypto.hash.composition` to do exactly that using arbitrary
hash functions, and pre-define the common SHA2-based ones.
With this, we can now sign and verify Bitcoin signatures in pure Zig.
The constant value lowering for unions was missing a check for whether
the payload was itself an unnamed struct. Lowerings of other types
already handle this case.
closes#11971
This regressed; the plan9 linker code is crashing when trying to build
compiler-rt and we have no active plan9 maintainers involved in the Zig
project. Anyone is welcome to come over and take the role; however, it's
not one of the tier 1, 2, or 3 targets, so we will not be blocking
progress towards 1.0 on plan9.
Zig guarantees the memory layout of f16, f32, f64, f80, and f128 which
means for generic function purposes, values of these types need to be
compared on the basis of their bits in memory. This means nan-packing
can be used with generic functions, for example.
For comptime_float, the sign is observable, whether it is nan is
observable, but not any more kinds of bit patterns are observable.
This fixes the std.fmt tests that check printing "-nan".
Rather than lowering float negation as `0.0 - x`.
* Add AIR instruction for float negation.
* Add compiler-rt functions for f128, f80 negation
closes#11853
The LLVM backend was calculating the amount of padding solely based
on the payload size. However, in the case where there is no union
tag, this fails to take into account alignment.
Closes#11857
Many of the Managed methods accepted by-val parameters which could
reference Limb slices that became invalid memory after any
ensureCapacity calls. Now, Managed methods accept `*const Managed`
parameters so that if the function allows aliasing and the
ensure-capacity call resizes the Limb slice, it also affects the
aliased parameters, avoiding use-after-free bugs.
This is a breaking change that reduces the requirement for callsites to
manually make the ensure-capacity changes prior to calling many of the
Managed methods.
Closes#11897
